The incident occurred at around 1.30 am at Aquarius Tower in Govind Nagar Bhayandar: Twenty-one residents, including four children, were injured after a fire broke out in the meter box of a seven-storey residential building in Bhayandar East shortly after midnight on Friday, officials said. Thick smoke engulfed the building, trapping several occupants inside their…
Acting on a tip-off, a flying squad of the State Excise Department laid a trap near Gorathan village in the Khambala area of Jawhar taluka. A suspected tempo was intercepted and searched. Palghar: The Palghar State Excise Department has busted an alleged liquor smuggling operation on the Mumbai-Ahmedabad Highway, seizing Foreign Liquor and beer worth…
Mumbai: In a major setback to Mumbai police, the designated Maharashtra Protection of Interest of Depositors (In Financial Establishments) Act court has directed the Economic Offences Wing (EOW) to re-register an FIR in a complaint of cheating, which the police closed as a civil dispute.Judge Vikram Jagdale directed the police to register a fresh FIR…
A Mumbai woman’s unborn baby received an anti-cancer drug to shrink heart tumours (AI-generated image used for representational purposes) For 38-year-old Jogeshwari resident Sevanti (name changed), reaching the 24th week of pregnancy after three early miscarriages felt like a victory.Then came devastating news: her unborn baby had five growing tumours in the heart and nodules…
Police said they are married and had a domestic dispute. The FIR was registered on the basis of a complaint given by the woman. Mumbai: Less than a week after a horrific video captured a man beating up a woman badly on the railway tracks at Dadar, the Govt Railway Police (GRP) tracked down the…
Mumbai: Volunteers from an NGO rescued Jyotsna Begum (55) after they found her in a disturbed state at Bandra’s Carter Road, where she nervously asked people to guide her to the house of actor Salman Khan. Begum travelled from Assam to Mumbai to meet the Hindi film actor because she had read somewhere that “Salman…
Mumbai: One hundred days’ worth of freshwater supply in volume — that’s approximately how much rainwater landed on Mumbai in the first week of July. Enough, for those inclined to measure it differently, to fill 166,000 Olympic-sized swimming pools.It’s a hot irony that the city continues to face a 10% municipal water cut, and hundreds…
A Dawoodi Bohra family enjoys Yemeni food and its iconic coffee After a walk down the wide streets, shopping and eating piping hot payas, naans and kebabs, sitting down for some Yemeni coffee can be a nice way to wrap up the outing.Located near Raudat Tahera, the iconic mausoleum housing revered tombs of Dawoodi Bohras’…
MSEDCLsays the spike in bills is linked to the exceptionally hot summer, which led to greater use of air-conditioners, coolers and refrigerators Kalyan: Nationwide protests against smart electricity meters have reached the Kalyan-Dombivli belt, with many consumers alleging their monthly bills have increased three to five times despite no major change in household power consumption.While…
Police said preliminary investigation indicates that many other citizens may also have been cheated in a similar manner Mumbai: The city crime branch arrested a Jaipur businessman and an impostor who impersonated an IPS officer in a fresh case of cheating after a Gujarat businessman lodged a complaint alleging that the accused cheated him of…
